No Audio Device

Hey Brad:

Thanks for the thoughts, but it clearly is an XP issue.
( I checked anyway, of course g ) The sound sub system
is not allowing me to modify it. Nor is it acknowledging
what Device Manager says is installed properly.

( for the built in card one has no choices in the way of
speakers.. and as there is no sound device there is
no 'mute' button to uncheck )

Hopefully somebody from MS will take a peek in this
forum and have a thought.


Thanks anyway


Paul

Give this a try. Go into Windows Media Player. From the Tools menu select
Options, then select the Devices tab. Double-click on speakers. You get a
chance there to select audio device. Look for your sound device there.
Maybe this will help. I was able to do this to get WMP to recognize my sound
card recently.
Good Luck.

"Paul T." wrote in message
...
Hi. I've been running XP Pro for half a year here at
home. It has been great, coming close to never crashing.
Two weeks ago it did lock up requiring a hard boot. Once
back up, I had lost sound.

I removed the drivers and software ( even called Creative
for their 100% Grade A approved method to do this ), then
installed them again: no go. Since then I've tried
removing and installing that Audigy card, even the ATI All
In Wonder card as it has sound capabilities/drivers.. I
have also removed all traces of the Audigy card and re-
enabled the MB's built in sound card. In each case Device
Manager states the sound card in question is functioning
properly. But when you open the 'Sounds and Audio
Devices' applet in control panel you are informed that
there is no audio device. For the Audio tab therein the
default devices say .. No Playback Device, No Recording
Device, etc and are grayed out thus preventing my choosing
the sound card as the device.

Today I put another HD in and installed XP Pro fresh. The
sound card built into the MB works fine.

Thus I know the hardware is ok. And I know the drivers
are .... as ok as windows drivers can be g. My question
is how to I convince XP that it has a sound card?

I did do a Google search, and found that many have had
this exact problem with various types of PC's or
components... however only XP and Server 2003 Beta users
have reported the problem. A few times going to Services
and enabling Windows Audio has helped ( Apparently MS
moved the sound sub-system to a Service with the release
of XP ?? ) however on my system that service is going
already, and the choice to STOP the service is grayed out.

I would really prefer not having to install XP again,
especially as this will probably occur again. I did run
SFC but that did not help.

Any thoughts on how to remove and re-install the XP sound
system?

Many Thanks


Paul

Thanks Barry. Tried that, including updating to the
latest rev of Media Player, but no go. It simply shows
two CD players... no speakers, no sound device.
Guess I will have to bite the bullet and pay for a support
call to Microsoft.

Thanks again

Paul

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-----Original Message-----
Give this a try. Go into Windows Media Player. From the
Tools menu select
Options, then select the Devices tab. Double-click on
speakers. You get a
chance there to select audio device. Look for your sound
device there.
Maybe this will help. I was able to do this to get WMP to
recognize my sound
card recently.
Good Luck.

"Paul T." wrote in message
...
Hi. I've been running XP Pro for half a year here at
home. It has been great, coming close to never
crashing.
Two weeks ago it did lock up requiring a hard boot.
Once
back up, I had lost sound.

I removed the drivers and software ( even called
Creative
for their 100% Grade A approved method to do this ),
then
installed them again: no go. Since then I've tried
removing and installing that Audigy card, even the ATI
All
In Wonder card as it has sound capabilities/drivers.. I
have also removed all traces of the Audigy card and re-
enabled the MB's built in sound card. In each case
Device
Manager states the sound card in question is functioning
properly. But when you open the 'Sounds and Audio
Devices' applet in control panel you are informed that
there is no audio device. For the Audio tab therein the
default devices say .. No Playback Device, No Recording
Device, etc and are grayed out thus preventing my
choosing
the sound card as the device.

Today I put another HD in and installed XP Pro fresh.
The
sound card built into the MB works fine.

Thus I know the hardware is ok. And I know the drivers
are .... as ok as windows drivers can be g. My
question
is how to I convince XP that it has a sound card?

I did do a Google search, and found that many have had
this exact problem with various types of PC's or
components... however only XP and Server 2003 Beta users
have reported the problem. A few times going to
Services
and enabling Windows Audio has helped ( Apparently MS
moved the sound sub-system to a Service with the release
of XP ?? ) however on my system that service is going
already, and the choice to STOP the service is grayed
out.

I would really prefer not having to install XP again,
especially as this will probably occur again. I did run
SFC but that did not help.

Any thoughts on how to remove and re-install the XP
sound
system?

Many Thanks


Paul



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